'The Blue Privilege' -- Last Tattooed Maori Women by Harry Sangl - 1980: Te Kuia Moko

NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1929. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1929, first printing. folio, 9 1/2" x 12 1/4." 363 pp., profusely illustrated with 400 plates. Dark blue cloth with gilt titloes and design, top edge gilt. Very good plus.. 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Folio.

Stuttgart: Würtembergischer Kunstverein, 1976. First edition. Near fine copy, covers just a little frayed along edges, and with some soiling.. 4to. Paper covers. Pp. 226. Illustrated. Text in German.

London: Thames & Hudson. 1967. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good copy in Very Good Dust jacket - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Bookseller stamp/label to front paste-down. Signed by Arthur Boyd on half-title page. Illustrated with 44 colour and 134 black & white reproductions. 288 pages. Arthur Boyd, AC OBE was one of the leading Australian painters of the late 20th Century. A member of the prominent Boyd artistic dynasty in Australia, his relatives included painters, sculptors, architects or other arts professionals. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both. He was a member of the Antipodeans, a group of Melbourne painters that also included Clifton Pugh, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval and Charles Blackman. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Zurich: Bruno Bischofberger, 1988. First edition of an edition of 2,000 copies. Softcover in dust jacket. Published Zurich: Bruno Bischofberger, 1988, first printing. Black, blind stamped 8vo. wrappers in printed brown paper dust jacket. 203pp., illustrated with plates. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Signed on the title page by Chris Van Allsburg. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1974. First Edition. 8vo. xviii + 432 pp. Very Good/Good. FFP inscription: "To Pamela Sherek Very best wishes Meryle Secrest." Signed by Author. First Edition. Pamela Sherek, née Boscawen, was the wife of Henry Sherek, famed theatrical impressario.

Santa Monica, CA: Ram Publications / Huntington Library, 1997. Signed on the title page by Michael Kenna. Additionally inscribed: To Michael, with very best regards, September 12, 97. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket, with a hint of fading to the dust jacket spine. A lovely production.

Good copy of this beautifully illustrated book of classic fables with realistic animal studiesComplete with 56 etchings, drawn and engraved "from the life" by Samuel Howitt, with title page and list of platesPlate 32, The Dog in the Manger, bound opposite the title page as the frontispieceSamuel Howitt (1756–1822) was an English painter, illustrator and etcher, famous for his scenes with animals, hunting, horse-racing, sporting and landscapes. He is best known for his illustrations to Captain Thomas Williamson's Oriental Field Sports (1807). Other works include Thoughts on Hunting (1798), Miscellaneous Etchings of Animals (1803), British Field Sports (1807); The Angler's Manual (1808), Groups of Animals (1811), The British Sportsman (1812) and Foreign Field Sports (1819).Blue buckram spine, marble boards bumped and darkened, new endpapers, tissue guards, all plates with varying degrees of spotting and foxing, mostly outside the image, one with 10cm tear within image, first 25 plates with small… Read More

New York: Harrison House 0-517-254204 [0-517-254204] 1968. (Folio hardcover) 527pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Black & white and color illustrations, , catalogue, bibliography, concordances, locations of paintings, index. A previous owner's name. Art of Rembrandt. (Art, Artists--Dutch).

New York: Harry N. Abrams [0-8109-3202-4] 1990. (4to) 352pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. More than 1000 illustrations, including 170 plates in full color. Bibliography, index. "...renowned for metalwork and lacquer". Art of Jean Dunand. (Art, Art Deco--France).